Anthony Buttitta, Date of Birth, Date of Death
TweetAnthony Buttitta
American playwright
Date of Birth: 26-Jul-1907
Date of Death: 11-Aug-2004
Profession: playwright
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Leo 
About Anthony Buttitta
- Anthony Buttitta (26 July 1907 in Monroe, Louisiana - 11 August 2004 in New York City ), the son of poorly educated parents, recent immigrants from Sicily.
- He published his first plays and stories in the later 1920s as an undergraduate at Louisiana State Normal College and the University of Texas.
- Subsequently, at the University of North Carolina, he was one of the group of friends who founded the avant garde Intimate Bookshop and the literary magazine Contempo (1931–34).
- The magazine led to him meeting and corresponding with such writers as Sherwood Anderson, Ezra Pound, George Bernard Shaw, and William Faulkner.
- In 1932 he edited a special Contempo issue devoted to Faulkner’s work, now much coveted by Faulkner collectors.
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